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The YouTube Star Who's Teaching Kids How To Bake

Celebrity chef Rosanna Pansino hosts the YouTube show Nerdy Nummies and has more than 8 million subscribers. Among her fans are thousands of children who want to learn how to bake.
Rosanna Pansino is a YouTube star and a celebrity chef. Her YouTube cooking show <em>Nerdy Nummies</em> has millions of subscribers, many of whom are children interested in baking.

Rosanna Pansino broke into the world of nerdy baking videos in 2011 with a cheap $80 camera and a boxed cake mix. Actually, it's entirely possible that Pansino created the world of nerdy baking videos, with decorations for cakes, cookies and pizzas inspired by pop culture sensations like Super Mario, Minecraft, Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.

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